"Salone Milan 2016"

From a stone to a simulated human heart, the Italian designer Andrea Branzi and Japanese designer Kenya Hara, trace the design history of tools from the stone age to today, in the Neo Pre History – 100 Verbs exhibition at the Triennale di Milano.

A journey inspired by the power of “100 verbs” and “100 instruments” which, like streams of mysterious, life-giving energy, guide the viewer through the dark clouds of history and of infinite space.

Architect Diébédo Francis Kéré, originally from Burkina Faso, was invited to transform Palazzo Litta’s inner courtyard into a neo-African village.

Inside the Palazzo, DAMN Magazine assembled a selection of architects, designers, and corporate partners, to express themselves under the theme : A Matter of Perception: Tradition and Technology – which is all about the origin of concepts; how materials affect and define an object or an idea, with the purpose of looking at things in everyday life in a different way.

The Dutch Pavilion at Palazzo Francesco Turati – – a palace of unprecedented beauty, skilfully restored to its original state – presented ” Masterly – The Dutch in Milano ” in a synergetic connection with historic objects and paintings

This was the first time that the recently fully restored Palazzo Turati opened its doors during the Salone del Mobile

Ceramica Globo, in collaboration with creatives GamFratesi, previewed its new 2016 collection inside a museum-concept exhibition in the basement of it’s showroom at Corso Monforte 15, – where the ” Display” collection was literally ” on display “

The Japanese paper distributor TAKEO Co, Ltd, under the curatorship of Kenya Hara invited 15 creators including architects, illustrators, graphic designers and art directors to explore the material paper for their Annual paper show.

After two years of planning, and with art direction by Kenya Hara, the 47th edition focuses on the delicacy, resilience and important value of paper, with the intention to rethink and further broaden the possibilities for fine paper.

During Design Week, the public could personally test the set to the Smart Writing Centre at BASE (ex-Ansaldo) and participate in a series of workshops dedicated to writing and note-taking visual, between analog and digital

Every day a special guest, compared the evolution of writing, starting from their own personal professional dimension, to tell their Salone story.

B&B Italia is still a business projecting itself toward the future with its people, production places, ideas, projects and products, market strategies. At the heart of the events and activities planned for the B&B Italia 50th anniversary there is the deep acknowledgement of the company’s history and contemporary identity.

What better way to mark its 50th anniversary than with more exciting projects which are rooted in the company’s past but aimed at future challenges ?